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Visa stated that its stablecoin-linked card program's payment volume has increased by nearly 200% year-on-year, currently supporting over 160 consumer, business, and commercial card programs. Since the beginning of the 2026 fiscal year, approximately 17% of the stablecoin-linked card transaction volume has come from business and commercial card programs. Mark Nelsen, Visa's Global Head of Products, Commercial, and Cash Flow Solutions, stated that businesses are seeking reliable and trustworthy methods of fund transfer, and stablecoins are increasingly appearing in commercial applications such as vendor payments, treasury operations, and cross-border commerce.Allium research shows that payments are the fastest-growing use case for stablecoins, with annual payment volume estimated between $401 billion and $527 billion, including service fees, payroll, and vendor payments of $56 billion, $43 billion, and $28 billion respectively, with B2B cross-border payments accounting for 43%.

On October 2, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the establishment of the Prime Minister's National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council in Ottawa, which will provide independent and pragmatic advice on Canada's artificial intelligence transformation. The council will bring together stakeholders from the public and private sectors to provide input on the evolution of the AI for All national strategy, covering areas such as accelerating adoption, nurturing national leading enterprises, building sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure, enhancing AI safety, protecting democracy, and ensuring that all Canadians benefit.Council members include Ajay Agrawal, Yoshua Bengio, Sanja Fidler, John Graham, Gillian Hadfield, Jordan Jacobs, Eric Lamarre, Valérie Pisano, Senator Thomas Pitfield, Jody Thomas, Louis Vachon, Michelle Zatlyn, and of course, Patrick Pichette as a member. The council is supported by a small team from the Privy Council Office, while policy decisions and implementation remain the responsibility of the relevant ministers and departments.Carney stated that the prosperity and sovereignty of the artificial intelligence era belong to countries that can build, adopt, and govern artificial intelligence according to their own conditions, and the council will provide recommendations on how to manage risks, seize opportunities, and improve the lives of all Canadians.

ZachXBT posted on platform X that UPay may allow the sanctioned illegal market Xinbi to issue its Visa crypto card and requested UPay to clarify the situation.ZachXBT stated that Xinbi is mainly involved in pig butchering scams, fraud, money laundering, and human trafficking.

According to U.S. officials, the Pentagon will send a third aircraft carrier strike group and more Marine Corps vessels to the Middle East, adding 9,000 to 10,000 soldiers to the region.

According to The Block, new data released by Visa shows that nearly 17% of the transaction volume from stablecoin-linked card transactions in the fiscal year 2026 to date comes from corporate and business projects.Visa currently supports over 160 stablecoin-linked card projects, with related payment transaction volume increasing by nearly 200% year-on-year.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Japanese Tennis Open: Alcaraz vs. Mitchellson" on Polymarket, the option "Over 2.5" in the sub-market "Total Sets O/U 2.5" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 28% an hour ago to the current 91% (a fluctuation of 63%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to CoinDesk, Brazil's state-controlled energy company Petrobras is testing the Cardano blockchain to track statements related to low-carbon fuels.The Cardano Foundation announced two research projects on Wednesday, one focusing on sustainable aviation fuel, which is a low-carbon aviation fuel alternative that can be used in existing aircraft and airports, and the other on Diesel R, which is diesel produced by Petrobras using renewable materials such as vegetable oils and animal fats.The aviation fuel project targets the book-and-claim model in green fuel sales: airlines can pay for the environmental benefits of sustainable fuel, even if the fuel itself is used elsewhere. This model requires recording the benefit attribution and claiming time to avoid double counting the same emissions reduction.The application records the source, recipient, and claiming time of each benefit through Cardano. In real scenarios, passengers can input their departure and destination airports to calculate the corresponding fuel benefits and receive a certificate linking their quota to the original fuel certificate. The diesel project records information on fuel production, transportation, and usage, compiling it into a complete fuel process history, which helps companies report Scope 3 emissions.Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, stated that Brazil has been one of the most stable adopters of Cardano, from government agencies like SERPRO to industrial sectors like SENAI, and Petrobras continues to value the on-chain traceability and transparency.He mentioned that with x402 landing on Cardano and Fireblocks increasing support for Cardano native tokens, institutional interest continues to grow.

According to official news, WasabiCard has launched various AI subscription cards, catering to the global AI tool subscription and payment needs of enterprises and teams, supporting subscription payment scenarios for mainstream AI applications such as OpenAI and Claude. Through card-based payment solutions, companies can handle the procurement and expense management of AI services for different teams, projects, or business lines more flexibly.In addition to AI subscription payments, WasabiCard also supports bulk card issuance for enterprises, fund budget management, and multi-currency account setup, as well as various scenarios such as advertising, business travel, payroll, and e-commerce subscriptions. It helps companies configure payment permissions and budget limits by department, employee, or specific purpose, enhancing the management efficiency of AI-related expenditures and the transparency of fund usage.As AI tools gradually enter daily workflows in research and development, content production, customer service, and operations, cross-border subscription payments and expense management are becoming important infrastructure for global operations of enterprises. It is important to note that currently, WasabiCard-related products are not open for application to enterprises and individual users in mainland China.

Recently, the police in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, investigated a virtual currency money laundering case. The criminal gang used "free credit card repayment" as bait to attract ordinary users to provide accounts. They received illicit funds from overseas gambling and fraud through false consumption, then contacted currency dealers to exchange for virtual currency and transferred it to designated addresses abroad. Through financial and on-chain data analysis, the police identified nearly a thousand involved accounts, with suspects distributed across Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Chongqing, and other regions.The Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China stated that it is currently using large model technology to analyze the flow of funds in virtual currency transactions, restore the gang's trading patterns, and uncover clues related to illegal industries. Upon investigation, it was confirmed that seven members of the gang were illegally engaged in payment settlement business without approval from relevant national authorities, constituting the crime of illegal operation, and were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from one year and two months to two years and six months, along with fines.Using virtual currency for money laundering is a new type of money laundering crime that has emerged in recent years. Lv Wei, the president of the Inner Mongolia branch of the People's Bank of China, stated that enhancing the monitoring and identification capabilities for abnormal fund transactions related to virtual currency trading has helped successfully crack down on a major money laundering case involving virtual currency pyramid schemes, dismantling more than ten money laundering and points-running dens, and confiscating illegal gains of approximately 130 million yuan. In recent years, there have been coordinated efforts to promote the conviction and sentencing of four cases involving money laundering using virtual currency, forming a strong deterrent against illegal activities such as money laundering with virtual currency.

The Wallet in Telegram has been renamed to Walt and will continue to provide services such as trading, investment, yield products, multi-chain assets, and cross-chain transfers.Walt plans to further launch crypto cards and AI-driven conversational trading features, with existing users not needing to migrate their funds or accounts.

The regulated operator responsible for the registration, securities custody, and settlement system of the Brazilian financial market, CSD BR, has begun to record the ownership of shares in certain investment funds under BTG Pactual, mirroring them to the public XRP Ledger. CSD BR manages registered assets exceeding 22 trillion Brazilian Reais, approximately 4 trillion US dollars. Its existing database still serves as the official record for registration, custody, and settlement, and the relevant assets have not been transferred to the XRP Ledger; fund shares will be presented in token form on the XRPL.This blockchain copy aims to allow approved banks and institutions to verify ownership changes in real-time, replacing post-reconciliation, reducing the slow and costly verification process, while retaining identity checks and regulatory controls. Anyone can read the token circulation on the XRPL, but CSD BR still controls who has the right to hold and transfer these tokens. The tokens adopt the multi-purpose token standard of the XRP Ledger, allowing issuers to restrict participants and freeze assets or revoke transactions upon regulatory or court requests, while participants still need to pass identity and anti-money laundering checks.The project starts with real fund records, distinguishing it from previous pilots that used test assets or closed networks. CSD BR was established in 2018 and is authorized by the Central Bank of Brazil and the securities regulatory authority. After becoming familiar with the mirroring system, CSD BR and Ripple plan to test the direct issuance of assets on the XRP Ledger and allow approved participants to trade, with potential targets including Brazilian real estate receivables and agricultural receivables.

Market news indicates that Apple originally planned to lay off 5,000 AppleCare employees, but later canceled this plan.

According to official news, the Gate perpetual contract area for stocks was launched on September 29 at 20:00 (UTC+8) with the trading of contracts for TWST (Twister BioTech), CVNA (Carvana), RUM (RUM Group), WBD (Warner Bros. Discovery), CRML (Critical Metals Company), and BWET (Breakwave Shipping ETF). Within one hour of the launch, trading bots and Order Tracking features were made available, supporting 1-20 times long and short operations.At the same time, Gate has launched CARDS (Collector Crypt) and XDP (Doppler Finance) contract trading, trading bots, and Order Tracking features. Among them, CARDS contracts support 1-10 times long and short operations, while XDP contracts support 1-20 times long and short operations. CARDS is a platform for real-world assets (RWA) of physical collectibles; Doppler Finance is dedicated to building tokenized capital market infrastructure, covering areas such as yield management, collateral asset utility release, and tokenization of real-world assets (RWA). This new addition further enriches the selection of trading targets in the Gate contract market.

Martin Carrica posted on X that after four years of working on regulated stablecoin-related projects with the stablecoin issuer Mountain Protocol and the licensed crypto institution Anchorage, he will join Coinbase as the head of stablecoins, responsible for expanding the distribution and influence of stablecoins.Martin Carrica stated: Stablecoins are the most transformative financial product, and although they have achieved significant success, their current scale is still relatively small. He will focus on promoting the scalable development of this technology.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the "Peer Program," offering trading rewards, asset rewards, and exclusive rights to different user groups, in order to give back to users who have continued to show trust and support during recent security incidents.For non-institutional users, Bitget will establish a dedicated prize pool using 30% of the platform's trading fee revenue. 60% of the prize pool will be distributed based on user trading volume, while 40% will be distributed based on asset value, with rewards issued in the form of USDT.In addition, Bitget will provide eligible V1 to V7 users with a 30-day protection experience card before October 1, which can be activated and used in the coupon center. This event will take place from September 28 to October 26, divided into four cycles, each lasting 7 days. Specific activity rules are subject to the official Bitget page.

Zhipu continues to address the code upload controversy surrounding its programming product ZCode. Existing paid users and those who have returned as paid users in the past month will receive 4 weekly reset cards and 4 5-hour reset cards, valid for 1 month.From September 28 to October 7, ZCode will also distribute 100,000 quotas of 100 million GLM-5.3-Flash Tokens to all users. Zhipu stated that the repository snapshot upload link has been removed, and the involved cloud data has been deleted. The open-source version is currently updated to v3.14.3, and subsequent code will not be uploaded to the cloud unless users actively initiate it.The controversy originated from the Repo Wiki feature that was enabled by default in the early stages of ZCode, which uploaded repository content to the cloud for processing when generating a knowledge base for the code repository. Zhipu has previously cut off the related upload paths and invited third-party organizations to verify the cloud data.